It feels like just yesterday we were discussing Proust and madeleines… Funnily enough, the first volume of In Search of Lost Time was actually my favorite text we read during this class. I loved how immersive the prose was. The entire text had a dreamlike feel, reminding me strongly of what it was like toContinue reading “My Final Post :(“
Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with madeleines, romancestudies, texts
Hi, sunshine! ˙ᵕ˙ My name is Shanelle Danimae Cuevas (Yes, I have two first names) but you can call me Shan! I am currently a first-year student here at UBC and I am pursuing a Bachelor in Political Science. My goal is to achieve my Bachelors to eventually study law with the ambition of becoming […]
Posted in Blogs, Introduction | Tagged with rmst202, romancestudies, ubc
Hey Everyone, I can’t believe this is the last time I’m adding to this 20 paged google doc. After 11 readings and 13 blog posts, we have finished this course! I remember being so intimidated by the contract at the beginning of this course that I was ready to drop the course before I started. […]
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with literature, romancestudies, romanceworld, romanticliterature, ubc
Hey Everyone, Wow, this novel had a lot to unpack. It covers sociological concepts like the reproduction of inequality, as well as romance, betrayal, and jealousy through the story of friendship. The friendship between Lila and Elena reminded me of the Gossip Girl characters Blair and Serena, as these young women navigate their changing lives […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with Elena Ferrante, friendship, gossip girl, literature, memory, My brilliant friend, romancestudies, romanticliterature, ubc, Womanhood
Hey Everyone, Writing this week’s blog post has been the absolute worst for me. To start off, I read and completed my blog post for next week by accident. Then, WordPress stopped working. Anyways, I found this reading really interesting. I finished it in about 3 separate sittings (with some short breaks on my phone), […]
Posted in Blogs, Cercas | Tagged with ethics, literature, repetition, romancestudies, romanceworld, romanticliterature, ubc, writing style
Hey everyone, The fact that this novel starts with “This is going to be a horror story,” made me expect to feel fear while reading this. Elements of the horror usually include suspense or surprise but the narrator was right in saying that the way this story is told was not nearly as scary to […]
Posted in Blogs, Bolaño | Tagged with Bathroom, Leave, literature, repetition, romancestudies, romanceworld, romanticliterature, time, ubc
Hey Everyone, I decided to download this book as a PDF from the internet, which caused some very strange spacing issues. Throughout the book, there were gaps that I don’t think were meant to be there as well as paragraphs separated mid-sentence. While this likely negatively impacted my overall reading experience, I really enjoyed this […]
Posted in Blogs, Fuentes | Tagged with Carlos Fuentes, literature, repetition, romancestudies, romanceworld, romanticliterature
Hi Everyone, This week I decided to read some blog posts by you guys before writing my own. I found it really interesting to see that there was a large divide between people who enjoyed the ‘double story’ style of this novel and the people who found it confusing. I personally have a lot of […]
Posted in Blogs, Perec | Tagged with literature, romancestudies, romanceworld, romanticliterature, ubc
Hey Everyone, I hope you all had a restful reading break. I spent the past week really taking my time to read The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda. This book has somehow taken the longest for me to read so far, possibly because I had the most time to read it. I found […]
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with doves, literature, Natalia, Quimet, romancestudies, romanceworld, romanticliterature, ubc
With each reading we have read, the easier and more enjoyable they are. I wonder if I’m getting better at reading translated works, as I originally found them tricky to digest, or if they are simply more interesting or are written using easier language. Perhaps for this one, it’s the fact that the narrator is […]
Posted in Blogs, Sagan | Tagged with cecile, hellosadness, literature, romancestudies, romanticliterature, ubc
